We learned that snippets can be very helpful, so how about creating our own? We'll make an awesome HTML snippet, better than the one in the preceding example. First, let's have a look at how snippets work in more detail.
Snippets can be saved under any package folder, but we'll start with saving our snippets under Packages/User. Snippets must live in a Sublime package.
Snippets are simple XML-formatted files with the extension sublime-snippet. The root XML tag will always be <snippet> and will then contain the following:
Content: This tag represents the actual snippet.If we want to write
$, we'll need to escape it with\$.For indentation, use tabs only. If the
translate_tabs_to_spacesoption is set totrue, tabs will be transformed to spaces automatically when the snippet is inserted.The
Contenttag must contain the<![CDATA[…]]>section. Snippets won't work if we won't do it.Also, the
Contenttag cannot...
